Hosiery and garment press



E. J. SCHREMP HOSIERY AND GARMENT PRESS Filed Feb. 28, 1924 Patented May 1, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. SCHREMP, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN MENTS, TO THE PROSPERITY COMPANY, INC., OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPO-' BATION NEW YORK.

HOSIERY AND GARMENT PRESS Application filed February 28, 1924. Serial No. 695,655.

This invention relates to presses and particularly to hosiery and garment pressing machines.

An object is to produce improvements in pressing and ironing machines whether for hosiery, gloves knit-goods or other materials, designed principally to increase the quantity of work turned out by the press as well as to improve the condition and ap- 19 pearance of the goods; and another main object is to produce a pressing machine having facilities for drying and cooling the garment by removing the steam and heat therefrom without adverting to the use of complicated structures and without driving the cooling medium through the press jaws.

The invention also has relation to my application for patent on hosiery presses filed February 21, 1924;, under Serial Number 29 694,210, and an additional object is to produce improvements thereover or to produce a structure capable of more effective use in connection with certain character of work where it is desired to cool work by an application of cold air only.

Having the above principal objects in view with others as will be observed in the specification, the invention is disclosedin the exemplary showing made by the accompanying drawings 'whercin the structure and mode of operation thereof may be varied in many particulars without departing from the scope and principle of the invention.

Figure 1 shows a fragmentary View of a 35 pressing machine in side elevation with the pressing jaws open, being a side view showing the principal pressing parts of the machine.

Figure 2 illustrates a plan view of the machine showing the elongated structure of the pressing members possessing a substantially large pressing spread or area.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings for a detailed description of the 5 invention, there is as shown a pressing machine frame 10 carrying a pressing lever 11 pivoted on the frame at 12 and carrying a pressing member or head 13 on one end thereof. A pressing buck or lower jaw W member 14 is provided as is usual in this character of pressing machinery. Any suitable operating mechanism such as a manual or power device may be used for raising and lowering the pressing jaw or head 13,

downwardly to the pump. The

but inasmuch as the present invention is confined to presslng member improvements and 'more particularly to drying or cooling systems, the press operating means has been omitted.

A source of air suction or pressure, such as a blower or pump 16, is used in connectron with my improved pressing machine and has an outlet delivery pipe 17 serving to convey a high speed air stream of substantial volume to a lengthwise nozzle blower 18 situated adjacent the edge of one of the pressing members, in this case the lower jaw 14; and the nozzle is designed to deliver a steady flow of cold air transversely across the face of the pressing member and between the open jaws thereof. The pipe 17 delivers air, preferably cold air, to a lengthwise nozzle 18 which extends the full length of the pressing member for the purpose of spraying a stream of air across the work in the press. An air intake or suction pipe 20 acts with the pump or blower 16 and conveys air from the region of the press jaw ipe 20 connects with a receiving nozzle 21 disposed lengthwise along the edge of the pressing jaws for the purpose of picking up the air blown across the pressing members and through the aws thereof. 1

As the pump or blower 16 is in circuit with the nozzles 18 and 21 and the connecting piping system, it follows that an air circuit is established around, across and through the pressing jaws whereby a lar e volume of air is blown directly across t e work under treatment. The air draught or stream passes across the work and through the open press jaws in a solid relatively thin strata and is picked upby the receiving nozzle 21 thus serving to carry heat as well as steam from the garment or other work supported on the buck 14. The apparatus is designed principally to function when the pressing head is up for, as is understood by those conversant in the art, when the pressing machine is closed, the work is usually being subjected to steam. spraying and heating treatments. The blower 16 may be continuously operated and the air stream immediateiy finds itself objective as the head 13 rises.

It is to be noted that one of the principal advantages in this air circulating system for cooling the garment and other work in the pressing machine resides in the ability of the apparatus to deliver a large volume of air across the work without in any way interfering with the comfort and convenience of the operator because the air, however hard it .is blown across the press towards the front thereof and towards the operator, is picked up by the receiving hood or nozzle 21 and therefore does not blow upon the operator. Another advantage in apparatus of this character working under this new mode of operation for cooling garments, resides in the ability to deliver cold air only into and across the work. While some pressing machines necessarily and advanta eously deliver air through one or both of the pressing jaws thereof with the result that the air becomes Warm or heated before reaching the work, it follows that cold air is found more desirable in some instances, and hence the utility of my invention will be appreciated, for in pressing and stamping or printing certain garments it is ofttimes found advantageous to treat the arments without applying steam thereto ant in such case it is usually desirable to blow cold air upon the hot work instead of cold air for the reason that cold air will more rapidly remove dry heat, in the absence of steam and moisture, from the garment than warm air.

I claim A press comprising, cooperating press jaws adapted to open and closeupon the work, an air discharge and an air receiving nozzle mounted at opposite edges of the jaws in the plane of the meeting faces of the jaws, the two nozzles aforesaid being spaced apart a distance sufiicient to admit the jaws between the nozzles, said nozzles each including an elongated mouth about equal the length of the jaws, the openings of which are in alignment with the plane of the meet ing faces of the jaws, and air moving means connected with the nozzles.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWARD J. SCI-IREMP. 

